An American Citizen Became a Pope after ...

 

An American Citizen Became a Pope after ...

...about 1,500 years of establishment of the office of the Roman Catholic Church, HQed in Rome.

“Oh, for that many years, indeed centuries we had no leader of ours in the Roman Catholic Church. No wonder we had divisions galore in American Christianity−Southern Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterians, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), Seventh Day Adventist, Scientology,” I heard an American Catholic bemoan.

This is in line with what I wrote in another post on blogger: any sect of any religion, is infused with an eagerness to differentiate from the others, of the same or another religion. Then, people claim that religion unifies!

Any philosophy that seeks to differentiate between its school of thought from that of the others, individually or severally, cannot ever be a unifier. Never.

So, I asked, “You wanted an American to lead the Roman Catholic Church before there was an America? Americans have a history of no more than 236 years. America was not America before 1789 CE!”

Just as in reckoning an American Pope (that was another write-up) without understanding that the Pope stands above any and all nationalities (at least in principle), the history that Americans acknowledge does not go past the date of its Constitution.

Americans need corrective glasses to look beyond and before them.

Raghuram Ekambaram